Tim Chandler

One of history’s ironies is how weather expert Dan L. Smith came to write the only book still in print about the Bankhead, America’s first transcontinental all-weather highway. A native Floridian, Smith came to Texas in the 1970s to train…

One hundred years ago, driving across Texas was no casual undertaking. Roads, if they existed, were as likely to be dirt as paved, were not marked with signs, and opportunities for automobile service and fuel were not conveniently located. Today we take driving…

Viewing the site, it’s easy to imagine a rocky, brush-strewn hill outside Jerusalem. Looking up, you can see the 24-foot lighted concrete cross on top of the hill whose northeast slope provides a prospect of Highway 481 connecting with Interstate…